Sochi says 65 world leaders coming to Olympics

The chief organizer of the Sochi Olympics says a record number of world leaders are coming to the Winter Games. Dmitry Chernyshenko says 65 heads of state and government and international organizations are expected to attend Russia's first...

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Asia Leaders Join Sochi As Obama, Others Stay Away

When top Western leaders decided to stay away from Russian President Vladimir Putin's Winter Olympics, he wasn't exactly left friendless: he has the heads of leading Asian nations and others to help show the world that not everyone is put off by his human rights record and the anti-gay law he championed. Unlike President Barack Obama, who declined to attend the Sochi Olympics, the leaders of China and Japan — the world's second and third largest economies — are attending. Both say they hope their visits will boost relations with Moscow.
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Russian security forces have killed a senior Islamic militant in the Republic of Dagestan, around 300 miles east of Sochi, the venue for the Winter Olympics in less than three weeks. Eldar Magatov, who barricaded himself in a house with women and children, was killed in a shootout. The raid came as a manhunt continues in Sochi for a female suicide bomber who may have already breached the 'ring of steel' around the site.

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Sochi welcome the World Cup leaders | FIBT Official

Leading the overall standings ahead of the eighth and final race of the winter are European Championship silver medallist Janine Flock of Austria (Women’s Skeleton), Olympic runner-up and World Cup defending champion Martins Dukurs from Latvia (Men’s Skeleton), Olympic silver medallist Elana Meyers Taylor from the USA (Woman Bobsleigh) and Oskars Melbardis from Latvia (2-Man and 4-Man Bobsleigh).
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Sochi: China and Japan Compete to Win Support of Russia

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